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Letters Pnc'nr No. 69,126, dated September 24, ISGT.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONOERN Be it known that I, JOHN T. PRICE, of the town of Arrow Rock, in the county of Saline, and State oi Missouri, have invented a new and useful improvement on all machinery heretofore known or used for the purpose of writing, which improvement consists in closely fitting, by springs, a steel case around the fore-tinger to the height or approximating the second joint, and adjusting thereto, on the straight surface of said case, a pen or pencil, 'with a spring to attach itself in and work through a groove of said surf-acc; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, and clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a side view, and

Figure 2 a top view, and

Figure 3 a view of pen and pencil with their springs, which, by means of a projection on the under side, fasten themselves in the notches of the groove, and of a projection on the upper side, maybe lifted bythe thumb-nail, so as to slide te and fro in the groove and s Figure 4 represents a rear view, and

Figure 5 a front view.

The small letters a Z1 c represent the component parts of the pencil. Z1 slips into a, (and may be made of it, both in one piece,) and, by means of its projecting points, which are isolated from each other, contains the lead; and this, in turn, is secured at the writing point by means of c, which screws on to b, and thereby holds the lead in its proper place for c can be taken olf (nnscrewcd) whenever it is necessary to putin a new lead. The long lines.. thus marked near the edge of the pen in iig. 8, representl the construction of the pen so as to fit in the groove y, shown in iig. 2 above.

The large letter A shows the manner in which the machine is held, between the point of the thumb and first joint of the middle finger, when in practical operation. lhe letter B represents both pen and pencil drawn within their grooves, so that the points may be preserved from injury by the projecting arches, marked d in fig. 2, and the two holders fastened together by the little knob c in fig. l, (on the pen side ofthe sheet,) so that the whole may he safely thrown into the pocket or a travelling-sack. Instead of being fastened by the knob e, the two holders may be simply screwed together.

It is designed to make all portions of the machine out of steel, so that it may be light, while the springs will combine both strength and flexibility; but it may be made of anything.

The advantage of this machine, when properly made and used, over everything else now invented, will be that the hand can never be cramped, as the position and action of all the muscles will be free and natural. With a little practice any one, old or young, (for the holders can be made to {it fingers of any size,) may learn to write with both ease and rapidity; and hence it might become a valuable' lever in the cause of public education and genera-l progress in many of the arts and sciences.

The entire machine, in all its parts,.(exeept the pencil point and pen point,) is original with me, t'. c., the idea of, first, a thimble for the foreiinger; second, its mode of adjustment, by proper castings and sectional springs, t`o thc exact shapeof the finger; and third, the mode, also, ofadjusting the pens and pencils hy springs, combined with a slide, working, through a groove on the holder, parallel with its upper surface. But as the {irst idea. c., a plain thimble) has been anticipated by another patentee, (John Jacobs, October 14, 1862,) I confine my application for apatcnt to cover the two latter improvements.

I therefore respectfully ask that Letters Patent be granted me for An improved mode of adjusting pens and pencils to their holders by means of the spring represented in iig. 3 by the letter ft, and an improved mode of adjusting holders on the fore-finger by means of steel or gnttapereha castings, with grooves and notches for the pens and pencils, represented in iig. 2 by the letter y, and with sectional springs, represented in lig. l. by the letter n, to clasp the linger, as also to permit two holders to bc iirmly united together, as in Figure'l.

JOHN l. PRICE.

Witnesses:

L. C. llenaron, 

